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NEH. iv. 17] SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 75
sufficient (see above under to (6)) represent iv TOLS apTrja-tv for which
latter word no equivalent may have presented itself to his mind. But
we are still at
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a loss to account for his v -i*n ,
unless it stands for
IvoirXoi, which his exemplar may have read as an addition to, not a
variant for, iv oTrXois, so that the Gr. as known to him would be cv
OTrXois
evoTrXoi.
(d) The Peshitta agrees with LXX in its interpretation of 72P3 ,
which it renders nz^cvJLa, the noun being the same by which, in the
above-cited places of Exod., it renders DH3, as does also Syr.-Hxp.
in those places. But Pesh. avoids the error of LXX as to D v TC>y,
which it renders with substantial correctness, but not happily, by
^ - 1- -,
the same participle which it employs just before as = D^NlM.
Inasmuch, then, as the Syr.-Hxp. translator, who no doubt had the
Pesh. at hand, could have followed it in rendering ap-rijpo-iv by n&oJLs ,
it appears probable that in his Gr. exemplar
iv oVXois was read for iv
rots apTr)p